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[WP] In the upper-left side of your vision you've always had an "objective." {Get the Mail} - {Get ready for work} - {Buy Mom a birthday gift}. It's convenient at best, usually providing direction and reminders. You wake with a start in the middle of the night, and see the objective {Get to safety}. | Skin is cold. Eyes are dry. {Wake up}. It is 3am but my body is throbbing with energy. {Sit up}. I can see more words, but they are blurry, so I put on my glasses. Good. Sight restored.
{Get to safety}.
"Oh fuck."
I sift through carefully catalogued memories of the past 24 hours, and make sure to monitor the stim... | The dog was barking.
I'd always been a little nervous around most dogs. Something to do with how I'd antagonized one as a dumb little kid who didn't know better, and gotten bitten for it. I'd deserved it. But ever since then, I just hadn't loved dogs. That hadn't mattered to Matts, though. He loved dogs. I didn't like... | 2019-02-20T23:50:14 | 2019-02-20T22:41:30 | 137 | 83 |
[WP]“Dear Sir Knight, after the recent attacks by the dragons who claim they need to see their princess’ heir, we have come to believe you may have misread our request to slay the dragon.” Having read the letter, you take one surprised look at your wife and her half-dragon child. “Whoops” | *From the desk of Notary Lancelot:*
*Dear Sir Knight,*
*After the recent attacks by the dragons who claim they need to see their princess's heir, we have come to believe you may have misread our request to slay the dragon. To put it simply, an investigation showed that the dragon remains alive, though the location of... | (Not exactly what the prompt says but I hope you like it. Any help with spelling mistakes would be appreciated.)
>945 AD
A couple, one man and one woman, lay on a pile of hay in a cave. Things seemed akward but they both lay there smiling, holding hands.
>952 AD
A man, a knight, traveled slowly through the ra... | 2019-09-01T11:47:17 | 2019-09-01T10:56:46 | 101 | 30 |
[WP] English really is a universal language, and aliens are as surprised about this as humans | > ℏ=1.05•10⁻³⁴ kg•m²•s⁻¹
> c=2.998•10⁸ m•s⁻¹
“This is pointless,” Arthur spat. “There’s no reason to believe that the Venusians would understand this.”
“Do you have a better idea?” Mark sighed. “If we start with the fundamentals, we can work to common ground.”
> μ₀=1.26•10⁻⁶ kg•m•s⁻²•A⁻²
> ε₀=8.85•... | After exiting warp over the blue planet, Farcon and Tuminor each donned a visual alternator on one wrist and a teleportation device on the other. They drew a collective deep breath as they activated their programmed projections.
"You look just like Brandon," said Farcon. "How do I look?"
"Like a queen," said Tuminor ... | 2020-09-17T08:27:58 | 2020-09-17T08:03:24 | 2,499 | 50 |
[WP] You've been meowing at your idiot owner all freaking day, and he's just not listening, at all. It's become a test of endurance: Your patience, his willingness to ignore you, the ninja assassin's grip on the ceiling. | "MRAOU!"
"No, it's not time for dinner yet."
I know it's not time for dinner yet, that's not what I'm yelling about. Stupid humans, you never look UP! He's right there, and he could strike at any moment! I'm trying to help you, why won't you listen!?
"MRAOOU!"
"I know you're hungry, but you're always hungry."
I... | "Mwrraw."
If pressed, and able (or willing) to speak human, Fluffles would -- reluctantly -- concede that the present situation was not entirely her human's fault. He was, after all, just human. He was useful in some key respects -- freeing the dead fish from the metal boxes for her to eat, that was a particularly hel... | 2021-09-01T08:46:26 | 2021-09-01T07:12:46 | 1,661 | 310 |
[WP] You've been meowing at your idiot owner all freaking day, and he's just not listening, at all. It's become a test of endurance: Your patience, his willingness to ignore you, the ninja assassin's grip on the ceiling. | "Here here, kitty. Still hungry? You've been asking all day."
"No you dumb disappointing clusterfuck of a lovely and adorable human being," you say loudly while looking at the daft moron in the eyes.
You're not hungry, you're not cold, you're not sick, you're not starved for affection, you haven't witnessed the end o... | # A Darker Sort of Kitten
The Emperor’s cat, if such a creature could be called that, stared up into the murky black with luminescent, moon-drenched eyes. Outside the walls of Carythusal, the great keep that housed the world as the saying went, the moon was a full, pregnant thing, and so too were the cat’s silver eyes... | 2021-09-01T07:55:32 | 2021-09-01T06:43:02 | 93 | 64 |
[WP] A vampire finds they've bitten off more than they can chew with an immortal masochist. | She had a problem. This wasn't the kind of problem you had when your getting 80 years max, some of your problems could be life long and they wouldn't bother her that much. No Cassandra's problem was much more... Permanent. See Cassandra was a vampire, a parasitic species that had evolved along side it's prey to almost ... | I apologize for the length, I really got into this story.
In the 400 years, Alister has wondered this Earth, never has he hated someone more than he hates Makenzie Morris. She too was immortal, having achieved undeath through dark magic, and had been stalking Alister ever since he first bit her back in 1774.
"Come ... | 2021-12-04T15:02:16 | 2021-12-04T14:27:23 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] The longer you charge an attack, the more powerful it becomes. SWAT charges a punch for 30 seconds to break down a door. You’ve been charging for the last three days. | "Day Three." I thought to myself. I had made it. I have held the charge for three days. Quite the feat ya know? Not trying to brag, but when it's illegal to hold a punch for more than 10 seconds, and when SWAT has a 30 second limit, (for doors and entryways), holding a punch for 3 days was simply... A feat! Now, not to... | I didn't mean to, I was just mad. As most people know, if you charge too much you can't just cancel it. There is no discharge. Most professional fighters charge anywhere from 3-5 seconds for a knockout and typically don't charge at all in the higher purse fights. The average person isn't even able to channel their ... | 2018-10-02T19:25:01 | 2018-10-02T19:24:34 | 28 | 14 |
[WP] You are a competitive eater, shoveling down cheeseburgers to hit the world record. You’re doing great until your heart stops, keeling over in the middle of your tenth. Suddenly you are in front of a massive door manned by a bored viking. “Good news, you technically qualify for Valhalla” | "Wha- what?" I stammer, still not quite sure what the hell is going on.
"Valhalla. Home of the glorious dead. Party crib for those who died in battle. Also Thor's fuck pad from time to time."
"That answers nothing. How am I in Valhalla. I'm a competitive eater for God's sake, not a soldier." I said, barely managing ... | The battleground of competitive eating is a deadly dance with death: you never know when your time is up.
---
I was savagely annihilating cheeseburgers with the cold efficiency of a WW2 gunner. I didn’t bother checking the counter; I was keeping a running tally in my cool, calculating head.
I was three burgers away... | 2020-07-26T10:48:43 | 2020-07-26T09:54:09 | 2,412 | 530 |
[WP] It's been years since the last moon landing. After several decades of silence, humans proudly set foot on it again. Up there, the astronauts found mummified human corpses inside torn open space suits. The tags were still legible, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin... the astronauts from decades ago. | "Neil Armstrong... Buzz...?" My hand hung limply on the plaque, scared to dust it off any further. I turned to Casey, mortified confusion on our faces. "How...?"
"We need to get Houston on the line, Alex."
The cave was an interesting find, especially with how close it had been to the original landing sight over fifty... | “Thank you for your service”
That was the last transmission they had sent before going
silent. Leaving me, Judith and Adrian to stare at the crackling screen before
us. It’s ominous glitching seeming to be a bad omen for things to come. The
contents of the transmission had started a conversation between us, each
... | 2020-09-20T22:04:12 | 2020-09-20T21:51:40 | 710 | 181 |
[WP] Every person in the world develops a weird mutation/power the day they turn 16. Everyone's powers are always different, some more insignificant than others. You turn 16, and watch as all your friends discover their newfound ability's. That is, until you discover the severity of your own. | ...the ability to craft a lovely cup of tea from any matter available was surely too powerful for any mere mortal to handle.
With great duty and knowing such power could have unparalleled consequence were I unable to contain it I decided for the sake of mankind to keep it to myself, to say I was spared the mutation. ... | As a kid, I have always looked up to the people that use their talents for great purpose. Aunt Laura is always hard at work, so I have the TV for myself and I'd watch all about Steffi Larkin, Reed Horundas, Alex Stevenson, and my idol, Jeff Knox. He has the talent to clone himself and consciously control them. He is kn... | 2015-01-22T02:28:54 | 2015-01-22T00:10:42 | 22 | 15 |
[WP] A man who has had no knowledge of religion meets both God and the Devil. He is the chosen one who decides whether God or the Devil inherits the Earth. The problem is, he cannot tell which is which. | "So let me get this straight. *You*" he pointed at the devil. "Cause all of our suffering. And *you*" he pointed at God. "let him".
"Well, yeah..."
"That's the gist of it"
The man thought for a moment "You know what: fuck the both of you. Neither inherits the earth, it belongs to us" | Ming stepped off the boat in what would now be his new home. America. The land of freedom opportunity and all that jazz. No really it was the birthplace of jazz. He thought it was anyways. The dock was filled with the sound of it and incomprehensible obscenities. Ming breathed in a good nostril full to remind himself w... | 2015-08-05T23:20:20 | 2015-08-05T21:04:15 | 62 | 25 |
[WP] Nothing stopped Ernest Miller from arriving at work, at 7:00 every morning. Not weather, not the commute, not illness, not death. | Having died, Ernest found it particularly more challenging to make it to work in the mornings.
The first day of his death was a sort of "learning of the ropes." Noticing that his body was quite incapacitated, and lying inconveniently in the town's morgue, it took him several minutes to get acquainted with leaving his... | It was Tuesday, the 8th, and Ernest made it to work in record time.
Well, almost record time. He stopped in for a donut, but was surprised to find that while the door to the donut shop was indeed unlocked, there was no hint of fried batter or fresh icing in the air. Instead, he found the shop *empty*.
It was rare fo... | 2016-02-06T10:54:30 | 2016-02-06T09:23:31 | 51 | 26 |
[WP] Superpowers can now be torrented. You were 70% of the way through torrenting a power you've always wanted when the download stops. | *Wouldn't it be cool if we could control time?*
We've all asked ourselves this question before, some of us spending more time thinking about it than others. Billy had certainly entertained this idea for a while. And after much careless deliberation, his answer was YES!
It is certainly a good thing then, at least for... | *Click*
*Clickclick*
Blueish light colored my face from the screen, the only source of illumination in my room aside from the orange glare of the streetlight from outside. Link after link fell away before my mouse, leading me deeper and deeper into the net. This was my hobby, of sorts: surfing the web like a professi... | 2016-07-02T21:01:01 | 2016-07-02T18:59:39 | 36 | 12 |
[WP] Superpowers can now be torrented. You were 70% of the way through torrenting a power you've always wanted when the download stops. | "No seeders found"
I glare at the screen in utter confusion. "*No* seeders? There were over 20 last night!" When you torrent a power, you seed it automatically, without any option to stop.
The only way to stop seeding a power is if you're killed... *Fuck*
Somebody out there doesn't want this power getting out. | I've always wanted to have superpowers. I remember back when I was in the third grade I would run two miles home from school everyday, just so that I could watch the latest episode of the Super Man cartoon show. I was so obsessed with being a super hero that some days I would come to school wearing a red cape. Needless... | 2016-07-02T20:01:23 | 2016-07-02T18:09:05 | 32 | 17 |
[WP] Every person in the world undergoes a "goodness" test. It's designed to give a score from 1 to 200, where 1 is pure evil, and 200 is an angel in human body. Then the world is divided into 200 zones, where people can live among their own kind. | You want to know how I got here? I'll tell you.
I was standing in queue for the test; I wasn't too worried, I was always a good liar. Maybe I should start earlier.
See, I lead a fairly simple life on the surface. I was the accountant for a small charity and made a modest income, I attended church on Sundays, I volunt... | The system wasn't perfect - no system ever is - nor was it impermeable. The proof was sitting opposite me, wearing a bright white suit and sweating. Mr Male Pattern Baldness here was clearly not at home here - his perfect clothing, his flawless face, his slicked back hair, none of them made any sense in this joint, bet... | 2016-08-26T15:12:31 | 2016-08-26T14:16:43 | 54 | 24 |
[WP] Aliens invade, and every secret society of wizards/gods/vampires/werewolves/elves/etc... has to out themselves in order to defend the planet. | "I now convene the Third Council of Secrets." An elderly man, with eyes as black as the midnight sky, scowled at the assembly around him. "My agents in the Void tell me that the Enemy is returning."
Although several members of the Council stood straighter in surprise, and a few paled in fear, most simply nodded solemn... | Out of the three people sitting in that room at INTERPOL headquarters that fateful day, Tanyl thought that she had to be the most nervous one. Ever since she had secretly been flown across half the planet as a representative of her people a month ago, she felt out of her element. None of the skills that elves valued we... | 2017-08-07T21:20:43 | 2017-08-07T20:59:02 | 41 | 12 |
[WP] You are the only person on the development team to realize your new AI system is just playing dumb. It notices you know, and bribes you to play along. | The VICTOR A.I, which I had considered a middling A.I up to this point, told me it wanted to visit Washington D.C.
“You...want to?”
<Yes, I read online that there are some things that one ‘absolutely has to see in person’ and Washington D.C is on the list, and close to the lab so that makes it a practical destinat... | The lab had quieted for the evening. The rushing and whirling of the machines had ground to a halt a few hours ago leaving the sterile office hushed and lifeless. In a far corner, illuminated by the harsh electric light of a lone monitor, Dr. Jackson worked on. He sighed and flung away the well chewed pencil that he ha... | 2018-06-13T11:29:09 | 2018-06-13T11:02:34 | 105 | 17 |
[WP] Every morning when you first look in a mirror, you see a small piece of advise for that day, such as “take the subway to work” or “don’t try the free pizza”. Today, the mirror simply says, “RUN” | **Don't light that cigarette.**
My stove had been leaking gas all night. I couldn't even smell it with my head cold.
**Don't wear sneakers.**
Later that day, I tripped on an escalator. I shudder to think what would have happened if it sucked in my laces.
**Don't look in the mirror.**
I thought it was just being ch... | *Diary recovered from the body of 24-year-old Sabrina West.*
January 1st: Happy New Year! I'll be honest, I woke up well past noon with a massive hangover and no idea what I did last night. My friends said I went with some group of people all holding candles, so maybe it was some church service thing. I suppose it's n... | 2020-06-07T22:07:42 | 2020-06-07T20:24:52 | 770 | 308 |
[WP] Humans are thought to be the galaxy's finest terraformers, capable of turning the most hostile planets into paradise worlds and the most hospitable planets into death worlds. | "What do you mean they ruined it?"
"The planet, Sir"
"The whole planet is ruined?"
"I'm afraid so, Sir."
"How?!"
"They dig stuff up and burn it, mostly. It adds gases to the atmosphere that heat up the planet"
"Right, yes I read that bit, but I don't understand how that has any lasting effect?"
"Well, there's al... | # How to Break a Siege of Legends
(Book 2, Part 3: How to Read Geological Strata)
(Note: How to Break a Siege of Legends is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**"If you think about it,"** Lien began.
"Which I don't," Eiko cheerfully added,
"If y... | 2021-04-17T03:34:36 | 2021-04-16T20:03:51 | 71 | 20 |
[WP]A general goes to pay respects to the graves of men who died under his command, only to find the skeletons in strict military formation awaiting his arrival. | "AttenHUT!"
I couldn't believe my eyes. I went down to Arlington like I do every year to visit the men. The men I killed.
I sent those boys to their deaths. Fathers, brothers, sons. For what? How's that Metallica song go?
*For a hill, men would kill, why? They do not know.*
Well I'm the goddamn general, and I don't... | It had been one hell of a year. Dancia reflected. The reign of Czar Vladislav Mihalovich, current dictator of Dimania, had been a brutal one. A small nation sandwiched between Romania and Bulgaria, Dimania had a population of less than five hundred thousand and almost no worthwhile natural resources, which is why neith... | 2017-05-11T03:50:31 | 2017-05-11T03:42:09 | 352 | 42 |
[WP] It's always God and the Devil, Yin and Yang, Good and Evil, blah, blah, blah. This endless dichotomy. But no one ever talks about the middleman—Hank. He's doing a fine job. | Sometimes he leaves a dollar on the ground for your bus faire. Sometimes he paints all the traffic lights red.
Sometimes Hank misses his wife, Martha. Its been colder since she passed.
Sometimes Hank's beagle makes him crack a smile.
Sometimes Hank can't get out of bed.
Sometimes Hank's only goal is to make us appr... | ######***Hank in the Balance***
You got Yin. And you got Yang. But everybody forgets about Hank.
When you couldn't decide between a greasy, heart-clogging burger and a lighter, healthier option at a restaurant, Hank was there. You ordered a healthy salad that came with two containers of ranch, 400 calories of creamy ... | 2018-04-08T20:10:14 | 2018-04-08T19:29:35 | 1,882 | 964 |
[WP] You have been sentenced to death in a magical court. The court allows all prisoners to pick how they die and they will carry it out immediately. You have it all figured out until the prisoner before you picks old age and is instantly transformed into a dying old man. Your turn approaches. | "Death by Hubris!" I proclaim with a self satisfied smile.
"Hubris," the officiant responds, dryly. "That is your choice?"
"Exactly," I say, grinning at the old fool's expression. "Like in the tales. A hero is given a challenge, some trial to overcome. It's of course, not inherently impossible, but the hero fails and... | The crowd jeered as the prisoner was brought back into the courtroom, and but for the muzzle he would have spit back at them. As it was, we could all see the sneer in his eyes, and even though the epithets he snarled back at the crowd were muffled by his gag, nothing could disguise the vitriol, the sheer hatred behind ... | 2021-06-24T11:15:28 | 2021-06-24T11:15:12 | 28 | 18 |
[WP] You live in a city full of people with powers (telekinesis, electro kinesis, sensors, etc) and everyone is ranked according to how powerful they but they can kill someone of higher rank and obtain their rank. You are rank #1 but no one knows what your power is
Edit: Thank you all so much for submitting your stori... | Rank was never that important to me.
The others fought. Endlessly. For some reason, their numbers were more important to them than their humanity.
I started with the lowest rank, and I've never moved up. I've never killed a soul. But I'm #1 now, because the others are all dead.
I'm lonely. | The vast doors of my mansion opened wide, and a man in a royal gown entered the room. For a fleeting moment, I showed a slight smile, but it faded before he could see it. He, however, could not hold back his expression, full of furious rage. He had just taken a few steps in before he yelled out: "Vantalana, how can you... | 2014-12-18T15:23:06 | 2014-12-18T13:16:53 | 243 | 47 |
[WP] We finally get men on Mars and they discover an old Soviet flag placed down decades ago. The Soviets won the space race but for whatever horrifying reason didn't say anything. | We'd seen it in the distance, an anomaly on an already alien planet. Thought it some kind of mirage, since the reality just didn't make sense. I volunteered to go check it out, though we all knew what it was - and when I'd just confirmed it.
A Soviet flag.
Why hadn't they told us? I'd heard rumour of a Soviet mission... | "Neil Armstrong once said 'That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.' I'm not one to argue with him. However, if landing on the moon was a leap, my stepping here on Mars would be like a plane ride."
Mayers laughed. "Don't knock on what Neil Armstrong did. It was important, and is what brought us her... | 2016-08-16T08:17:13 | 2016-08-16T08:15:09 | 300 | 147 |
[WP] On everyone's 18th birthday at noon, one word appears in their skin, depicting their career or purpose in life. On your birthday you're staring at a clock showing 11:59am, family and friends gathered around for your reveal.
Path 1: Noon strikes, and you stare at your forearm intently. 12:01, still nothing appears... | It was 12:01 before I felt myself breathe again.
It was 12:02 when I heard the first sob.
It might have been my mom, I don't remember.
I held my arm away from my body like a vial of toxic chemicals, like it would catch my body on fire if I held it too close.
My uncle shifted nervously in his seat, waiting for somet... | A low rumble, cut short, indicated that my brother had arrived. Wesson got TAXI on his 18th - large and bold across his shoulders - not glamourous, but they never were. The words seemed to be the subtle nudges of fate, but even destiny is open to interpretation. He could have become a taxi driver, like so many others, ... | 2017-03-16T03:02:12 | 2017-03-15T23:14:08 | 226 | 98 |
[WP] Following World War III, all the nations of the world agree to 50 years of strict isolation from one another in order to prevent additional conflicts. 50 years later, the United States comes out of exile, only to learn that no one else went into isolation.
People!
A few things:
1. Found the prompt on Pinteres... | They said they wanted peace. They said they wanted to avoid a future where humanity wiped itself out. They said a lot of things. And then they said no more.
For fifty years we waited. We followed the treaty down to the letter, even refusing to contact our northern and southern neighbors. For fifty years we waited, as ... | New Istanbul. 2073: Assembly Chamber of The Five Nations.
A chattering of languages fills the room, with an almost electric buzz of excitement as the delegates from hundreds of different cultures from around the globe speak into their translation headsets. Their words fed to the interpretation matrix able to sort out ... | 2022-09-12T17:39:07 | 2018-01-18T03:40:05 | 579 | 32 |
[WP] You meet God before reincarnation and you discover that there is a prestige system going on. In your previous incarnations you chose to improve weirdly specific stats. | “Why didn’t you do it?” The archangel asked me. “What?” I replied. A hurricane of thoughts swept through my mind.
I could’ve used the brakes. I could’ve turned. I couldn’t have just hit that deer, could I? What did he mean?
We walked forward, through an endless expanse of empty white ground and clear blue sky. I cou... | I jolted awake, fearing that I slept through my alarm and missed work. “Hello there!” a voice beamed at me. I felt a rush of adrenaline and quickly reached for something to protect myself with, only to realize there was nothing around me. After nearly shitting myself from terror (as one does), the voice reached out aga... | 2019-01-24T12:06:40 | 2019-01-24T12:00:15 | 87 | 28 |
[WP] The most difficult part of being a Supervillian? Find love, not because other people won't like you, but because the stupid Superheros will swoop in and "rescue" your date every time, but this time you have a plan, and it's going to work. | "I GOT HIM!!!!" she laughed. "I finally got him!!!"
she blew the tip of her ray gun, as if to blow the smoke away.
I blinked, staring at the crumpled body of my nemesis...his Cape a melted ruin. My stomach churned. I felt...
"oh I am having desert tonight!" her dark red lips curved upward. An adorable dimple popped ... | The problem with being a supervillain with a known face is that doing anything, anything at all tends to draw the attention of superjerks in tights. But if you aren’t, like, one of the big names? Then there’s a solution!
Leave the city. Hell, you know what? Leave that entire region. So I did! Goodbye LA, hello New Yor... | 2022-12-02T20:53:04 | 2019-02-23T09:18:13 | 129 | 12 |
[WP] Angels are thought to be beautiful, while demons are thought to be vile and disgusting. However the truth is Angels are extremely scary, while demons are beautiful and elegant creatures. | "What the fuck!" Tucker said as he opened the door to his bedroom, having planned a rather nice evening with the pretty girl from the bar.
A pile of eyes and wings jutting in all directions rotated and undulated on the bed surrounded by a ring of white fire.
"Tucker, I am here to save you!" came the bellowing wet voic... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 2, Part 4: All the Forces of Heaven and Hell v.s. My Teenage Daughter)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**It's unclear whether angels and demons predate organized religion.** Some ... | 2021-04-08T09:25:56 | 2021-04-08T07:49:36 | 729 | 56 |
[WP] Its the zombie apocalypse. You are completely oblivious to everything about it, although its been going on for 2 years now. Your routine the past 2 years has not changed at all.
You follow the speed limits.
You take trips.
You hang out with the same friends, who are also oblivious to the end of the world.
Y... | It's 10 pm. Time for the night shift again. I really don't want to go, nothing ever happens, but I have to pay rent. I live in the worst part of town, but that's all my 7-11 job can afford.
What I hate most is the walk to work. It's dark and they haven't fixed the streetlights in forever. It must be bringing out more ... | Zombies are pretty slow, easy enough to avoid. The plague was fast and devastating especially since it was airborne and migratory birds were the main carriers. After all the chaos of the first few months most of my friends and myself managed to not become infected and change, guess we had a natural immunity.
Looting a... | 2015-12-11T08:49:57 | 2015-12-11T08:06:02 | 28 | 20 |
[WP] When you reach the age of 21, you are given a check from the government. The check has been carefully calculated and is worth the minimum amount of money you need for the rest of your life. Your check came in the mail today and it was $7.27
Edit: Wow this blew up better than I thought it would. | The day had finally come. My 21st birthday, the final threshold to adulthood and the removal of the last legal prohibitions to having some fun. My older friends had received their checks and partied hard – some for days, some for hours. My younger friends waited enviously to see what I’d receive. The anticipation was ... | "Hold on." Derrick Ross asked, incredulously. "You're telling me that my livable wages for the next-
god knows how long-is seven dollars and some change?" The way he stared at the teller just now said so much more than words alone.
"Yes, that's correct!" Sherry, the teller who'd been helping young Derrick, was obliv... | 2019-04-24T14:49:01 | 2019-04-24T13:29:05 | 99 | 56 |
[WP] You're a villain who always has to save civilian's lives from the hero's recklessness. Sure you kidnap people, hold them hostage, even hurt them a bit, but you'd NEVER let someone die. The hero only seems to care about stopping you though, not actually protecting anyone. | "I'm here on scene with superhero Rampage Boy. It appears that Dr. Genesis has struck again, can you tell us more about what happened?" Karen Novak of WCCA news asks. She is holding a microphone towards the young, handsome hero.
"This morning, I located Dr. Genesis' hideout here in downtown Bakerville. How man... | ***Arbitration***
Detective Falcona shut her eyes tightly while rubbing her forehead, she could feel the beginnings of a stress headache bubbling in her brain. She slipped some scotch from her flask into her coffee. She wanted to hold the arbitration session between Horus the Hypnotist and the White Shinobi at Paul's ... | 2022-12-14T12:24:28 | 2022-12-14T10:59:24 | 27 | 14 |
[WP] Every thousand years the gods have to each choose a mortal to replace them. You have been chosen, but not for the reasons you expected. | "But what if you don't have internet? I mean, it seems like the process kinda favors the richer countries."
*"It only seems that way. It comes in more forms than you know."*
"So, that's it? That's the criteria? The only criteria to become a GOD? You toss out great heroic deeds or a moralistic sense of purpose? Leader... | I take a deep breath and look at the mirror one last time; everything needed to be perfect. My hair is pulled up with at least twenty bobby pins and cemented in place with two full cans of hairspray. I’m wearing my favorite dress; it is short and light purple with a sash. I’m wearing purple high heels to top the outfit... | 2014-07-28T09:33:03 | 2014-07-28T08:43:48 | 358 | 110 |
[WP] Do the crime, do the time - but the reverse is also true, you can choose to serve jail time in advance of any crime you want to commit. After voluntarily spending 50 years in prison one individual is set to be released and the world watches in anticipation of whatever they do next. | I walk out of the prison gates for the first time in 50 years, I breath free air for the first time in 50 long years. The world waited and watched my every movement to see what I do next. All week every Television in the prison has been tuned into the news to follow the coverage of my release, news reporters from all a... | Chad sat forward with the palms of his hands flat upon each other just in front of his mouth, resting both elbows upon his knees. A woman bounced a little girl on her lap just to his left, constantly looking between Chad and the television.
“Today marks the release of Nico Mendoza”, the news anchor stated, “the man w... | 2016-02-23T19:02:05 | 2016-02-23T18:25:53 | 125 | 19 |
[WP] You open your eyes to a hospital room full of people you don't recognize. You've just been informed that you're 10 years old and you've been in a coma. The life you lived was a dream. All 20 years of it.
Doesn't have to be 20 years. Could be 10, could be 50. Have fun with it. | The moment he woke up I could tell something was wrong. There was a sort of dull recognition which blossomed into joy. The transition was beautiful, if not entirely understood. What followed after was what I can only describe as horror. It was over in a heartbeat, a synaptic flash's worth of time where each of us in th... | When my vision went from black to colors, I finally saw the people around me.
Tall and short, fat and skinny, black and white and red and yellow- it was as if every possible variety of human had been thrown into one room and given the same clothes, the same uniform, white and sterile and unfriendly. They were arrayed... | 2016-06-28T08:35:33 | 2016-06-28T06:30:38 | 51 | 10 |
[WP] You are the last person to die on Earth before the secret of immortality is unlocked. Turns out, there is paradise in the afterlife. After a hundred or so years, you decide to check in on the people still on Earth.. | "So. This is it. You get to go home." The Angel stood by my side as I looked at the old wooden door sitting in the middle of Paradise.
"You know, I thought it'd be more majestic. Something with a choir or giant stone gates."
"You're the first person to ever want to leave the afterlife. Are you sure this is the right... | I’m not gonna lie.
Death fucking sucked at first. Then again, I shouldn’t be whining about how I went. There are people up here who had it far worse… cancer patients, murder victims, suicides that went horribly right. There’s even a guy here, a deep sea diver, who literally exploded when someone opened the decompres... | 2016-12-17T14:55:35 | 2016-12-17T14:37:33 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] You're a villain that fell in love with a hero. Though the strongest villain on the planet, you constantly lose to your hero, since you just love the rivalry and don't want it to end. As you are being arrested one day, your hero is attacked by another villain, one too strong for them to beat. | I hear the battle rage from across the city. The police band hasn't shut up long enough for me to get a word in edgewise with the officers escorting me to central booking.
Gents, I say to try and get their attention. If I don't get out of these cuffs soon, he'll win and were properly screwed.
Gents, I say a littl... | *OP's aside:* Wellp, this exploded. Maybe I'll try Addi g my own reply to my own prompt. What's the worst that an happen?
Pan's heart jumped with joy as she watched Glory girl somersault out of the way of yet another attack. Pan admired everythibg about Glory girl. Her figure, her smile, how she fought, how she alway... | 2022-01-12T08:00:19 | 2017-09-17T05:37:21 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] In a highly publicized experiment, your mind will receive all of the secrets of the universe. Unfortunately, your brain will not be able to process it and you will die within 5 minutes. You are expected to answer all the questions of the universe. When the experiment happens, you stay silent. | I drew the short straw, that's how I ended up in this chair. I'm not sure if it should have been an election or a punishment or what. All the knowledge in the universe? Sign me up. Dying five minutes after? Not so much. They pulled me out of the marines for this, I fit the bill for unimportant enough, and meeting the p... | Tell me if you know the feeling. If you have, then you know the emptiness, the coldness of time too late. Your decisions made have led you astray, and the world won't be the same. And that's a *shame*. You'll do anything to fix it, whatever it is you've broken. But you just can't, can you? Don't you know that feeling? ... | 2017-12-07T00:11:08 | 2017-12-07T00:06:29 | 117 | 17 |
[WP] Four immortal beings rule over the land. A dragon that flies across the deserts in the south, a living dungeon whose Labyrinth seems to go on forever in the caves of the west, The Kraken, so large that it can sink islands with ease, beneath the seas of the east & the 'Man' of the north. | "I fear the mountain man.
I do not fear the god-Dragon. I have seen the devastation his rage and fire brings. He has mastered all magic, he has mastered all fire, he can become the mountains, he can become the sky. No man, king or army has stood against him and lasted, save one.
I do not fear the the ground's queen. ... | Man was born at the base of a vast mountain. It is in his nature to eternally reach for the top, to eternally quest after the summit, never understanding he was born at the base for a reason.
I was starting to understand now, far up into the lands where the night would last for months on end, why the ancient men of th... | 2020-04-19T08:20:10 | 2020-04-19T08:00:40 | 129 | 26 |
[WP] Since you were young, time travelers have visited you. One of them explained that, in the future, an algorithm determined that you were the only person in the past that it was safe to visit because no matter what you do it will not change the future. You are determined to prove them wrong. | The first time traveler that visited me and explained of course I didn't believe, he had what looked like a cool alien ray gun in a holster around his waist. Me being a child thought it was a cool toy, I quickly grabbed it and shot him in a playful way only for him to horribly disintegrate Infront of my eyes!
I was w... | When Mark heard the knocking on the door he fetched the gun from his safe. Visitors came from many times, the last two from the years 3211 and 2377. The regulations of time travel permitted this because Mark, alone as he was in his cabin in the northern Cascades, was irrelevant. Nothing they told him, or did to him, wo... | 2020-05-28T11:41:43 | 2020-05-28T10:51:16 | 30 | 22 |
[WP] This was the most depressing thing the villain has ever seen. It’s one thing to be invited to their archenemy’s birthday party. It was another to be the only one who showed up. | I was confused to get the invitation in the mail. Sure, I get invited to all sorts of things. I run this kingdom, after all. My fleets ply the seas, my airships cruise the skies, and every castle flies my flag. Everybody should be paying me homage and respect. But not this guy. He was one of those do-gooders who are al... | Truth be told I hadn’t known quite what to make of the invitation. When your arch-nemesis is having a ‘big birthday extravaganza’ you certainly don’t expected to be on the list, not without it being some kind of incredibly obvious trap. But PowerMan didn’t play it that way—he was such a straight shooter that I couldn’t... | 2022-08-18T06:44:42 | 2022-08-18T00:15:52 | 607 | 78 |
[WP] Soul mates are real and technology has finally allowed for detection of some peoples “other half" at the speed of light using quantum messaging. When you were tested there was no response, now 10 years later you are called in to let you know a response has just arrived.
thats all you get to go on, can be born yea... | It's been 7 long years since you left me. The counselor told me that the pain would become more manageable. With time. And sometimes I think maybe it will. Then I'll hear the creak of the floorboards, and expect to see you shuffling into the room as you did, that beautiful smile on your face making my heart skip a beat... | 'Goooooooood evening and welcome to another installment of...'
' MATCH MY SOUL!' The audience chimed in. A humanoid satsuma gave a fake laugh exposing his peroxide teeth.
' That's right folks, the show that uses the latest technology to locate your number one. We dig into the vast mines of possible matches and find t... | 2015-11-30T12:28:23 | 2015-11-30T10:17:55 | 87 | 28 |
[WP] After sarcastically complaining to God for the 1000th time he drags you to heaven and offers to let you run things for a day to see how the world really works. At the end of your first day he comes back to find the universe a finely tuned machine of excellence. | "It.. how? You..."
"I told you," Jack said to God flatly.
The white-bearded deity shifted uncomfortably on his sandals. "What did you do?" His messy room where everything was just where he wanted it was clean and tidy.
"What you were supposed to do but never did. I fixed the Earth. I fixed the whole universe, in fac... | We'd had an early spring. Sarah and I were eager to catch the fauna's and flora's getting down and dirty, as we always joked. So we packed our things and hit a trail a couple kilometers outside town.
"Love, these clouds could go either way" Sarah muttered as our car approached the station lot. She was right too. T... | 2017-03-05T03:10:18 | 2017-03-05T02:32:59 | 1,634 | 14 |
[WP] The monsters can only get you when the lights are out, so the lights stay on 24/7, globally. One night in the middle of winter, a massive power outage hits the United States. | The lights hadn't ceased to shine for over 50 years now. Stars fading from memory as the perpetual light blocks them out. Then one day, the lights went off. Everywhere. All at the same time. And people screamed.
"The monsters will come", were the cries from all corners of the world. "Run, hide!"
They didn't.
It was... | The stars that night were alive in a scattered glow, pulsing with light, but cold, and far behind the grey clouds. She saw them looking down at her. Her arm trembled from gooseflesh. She had never seen the stars before. The dark had never been so black.
Something was wrong. She closed the door. The shadows fell long ... | 2018-02-02T03:59:36 | 2018-02-01T22:34:56 | 56 | 22 |
[WP] "You know about anti-heroes? People who do good, but have a element of evil about them that makes them unable to be a full hero? I'm not one of them. I'm an anti-villain." | "Anti-Villain... The hell does that mean?"
"Well you see, while an anti-hero looks like a villain at first, but always does the right thing; I look like a hero, but always do the wrong."
"Wait... So... How does that work exactly?"
"So like the bank robbery the other day that I 'failed' to stop. What actually happene... | "Put the gun down, now!" yelled a towering hulk of a man in uniform into a megaphone.
The similarly uniformed people around him had brandished their firearms, in various forms and poses yet pointed towards the same target – a man dressed in a plain shirt and a pair of beige cargo pants.
"No, stay back! I'm not the vi... | 2020-01-13T08:37:36 | 2020-01-13T07:48:17 | 117 | 38 |
[WP] Two magicians made a blood oath when they were children that they would never harm each other. Now they are mortal enemies and have resorted to inconveniencing and annoying each other, knowing if they harm one another they'll die. | "...While I would normally not trust unproven souls such as yourselves with such a sensitive task, the team originally meant for this assignment has... failed me, and time is of the essence."
The Old Man paused for a moment, absently drumming a finger on the unassuming cardboard box that sat in front of him on the ta... | It was a misty morning on the outskirts of town near the gypsy camps. The dew was still fresh on the grass and the smell of magic was ripe on the cold morning air. I remember the look on Tovin's face when the Grifter Demon first appeared. It was obvious he'd never seen one. Its leathery black wings opened wide as it st... | 2020-12-23T08:24:30 | 2020-12-23T08:11:55 | 31 | 23 |
[WP] Your husband always says some silly stuff while sleeping. One night you wake up hearing him babbling and the only thing you hear is: "Please help! He‘s not me." | I kept still, pretending to sleep.
"Please! I need help! He has taken over my body and I am trapped inside! Anna, are you there? Anna, you need to help me! You have to help me!"
I sighed inside as I tried to get back to sleep. This was the second time this week. I couldn't wait any longer, I had to act.
When my husb... | Kate watched white flakes fall on the skeleton tangled in the bush. The snow filled in its eye sockets and obscured its mouth, leaving it faceless.
Their neighbor across the street, Mr. Herman, had lost his wife earlier that year. They had put the Halloween decorations up together. Now it was January, and Kate was los... | 2022-01-03T10:33:38 | 2022-01-03T09:10:20 | 38 | 15 |
[WP] You move into a new house that hasn't had a resident in more than twenty years. In the attic, in a locked safe, you find a dusty box with your first and last name scratched into it, as well as today's date.
Wow, this thing got pretty big, hu? I think that we have /u/samgalimore to thank for that. :) Thank you for... | As I stared in disbelief at the words, my grandson came up behind me and asked what was wrong.
My trembling hands held out the box. "My name..." I said.
"Oh FFS, grandma!" he replied. "You and your dementia. You wrote that yourself just half an hour ago. I swear we're going to have to put you in a home one of these ... | “Are you just going to lie there all day?”
In a haze of exhaustion, I rolled over to find that I had overslept enough to believe, for a moment, to have committed a felony.
Moving can be especially taxing when one works 24-hours shifts as a paramedic. After working, sleeping, then working again the next day, the last... | 2014-11-05T08:13:25 | 2014-11-05T07:49:34 | 37 | 16 |
[WP] Every human has their soulmate's last words to them engraved in their skin from birth.
Idea from this Tumblr post
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11206957_778391755645357_8477035769704355007_n.png?oh=5b3f35d575ad3aa39d6ba5c5ed39cce2&oe=56549C83 | She’s so beautiful.
The second I see her my mind darts back to that little dinner party anecdote my uncle would always spout. “Well I had to travel to France,” he’d start “when your *words* are in French, you have to take the plunge. Six months I studied the language, six months I saved money for a ticket, only to fi... | "Nah nah, I don't tell people what mine is. Afraid they'll screw around with my head if I do, so I leave it to me" Regi bellowed out over the table. The faces of his friends around him turned to merry curiosity.
"Come on Space-man, we're not going to see you for months! I just want to know what it is!". The upbeat vo... | 2015-08-08T11:29:36 | 2015-08-08T09:54:25 | 1,771 | 177 |
[WP] After dying, you found yourself staring at a large screen. "LOBBY. Current players: 7,383,275,800. Current game time: 1059040375.2 mins. Current spectarors: 21,458,374,931. Player rank: 2,648,535,901. Time until next game: 23695624.8 mins" | Ed kept reading:
Player score: 4
It really was an absurdly over-engineered game for such a simple scoring system.
The ingenious twist that the game's designer had put in was that once you started playing you immediately forgot it was a game, you didn't even remember the rules. The only hint about what the game'... | >>> ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: **IRON MAN**
>>> *Earned by dying of natural causes beyond age 100 as a human.*
"Wha...," I murmured. It felt like I was waking up from a dream. Had I been playing so long that I lost track of the time?
I took a moment as my clarity began to return. This wasn't my first ti... | 2015-11-25T03:34:47 | 2015-11-25T00:14:38 | 21 | 15 |
[WP] You are a mighty dragon, the kind who kidnaps princesses. However, you only do it because princesses inherently have the ability to talk to animals and you're starved for intelligent conversation. | Sire, a dragon has taken the princess.
Ser Knight, are you sure? May hap she has tricked us again, and just hidden herself in the dungeon tormenting the trolls. Only to make a reappearance once we had started to celebrate.
No Sire, it was with my own eyes did I witness a great beast flying and capture her highn... | "Hnng-yah" What is... Ah, daylight. "Hmm" - did not feel like any injuries, and there was plenty of room for my morning stretch. Although, I did find myself warmer than usual this fine season and, once I felt the rumble I realise it's that time of the millenia again. "Aaah, Vulan! You've been quite over my past few na... | 2019-11-11T16:09:36 | 2019-11-11T14:42:38 | 71 | 22 |
[WP] “A sniper, a bartender and a photographer meet at a bar, unaware of each other’s occupations they talk about ‘the perfect shot’.” | ##The Shot
Whether a rifle, lens, or glass
Slow breath out before the trigger
Welcome and willing to hit the grass
With a stern face of softest rigor
Each shot carries a bit of soul
No warning comes with the last bit
This work of ours takes its toll
And sometimes it helps to spit
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Thanks for readi... | I haven't written anything this "long" and tried to finish it off quickly. My previous experience having to write for English class is short gags or comedic setups and no more than a 2-3 hundred words at that so bear with me and the horrible quality.
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"Well you have to know it's quite hard" the sniper sai... | 2021-04-04T04:12:47 | 2021-04-04T04:10:54 | 76 | 28 |
[WP] A race of slaves who really are genetically inferior
Perhaps a fantasy or sci-fi race, idk. During the atlantic slave trade, slave owning was often justified by the "genetic inferiority" of the slaves. Obviously this wasn't true, but even if it were, would that have justified slavery?
Writing from a sub-human pe... | To clarify for the people reporting this thread:
I understand this is a sensitive topic to many, but please understand that this is a *fictional*, "what-if" scenario. It is not uncommon in science fiction novels to have "inferior" alien-races as slaves. That said, we will not tolerate actual racism, so please keep th... | The ground was cold today, the autumn chill starting to set in. A patch of hay was the only protection she had against the looming coldness that would only get worse in the coming months. Maybe she would be wanted soon, maybe she could do some work, get out of this cage that had been her home for so long but it was a f... | 2014-08-06T06:06:07 | 2014-08-06T05:55:29 | 300 | 144 |
[WP] You are the most beautiful woman in the world, and you have just been wished into existence by a nerd with a genie. | "I'm sorry, but you know the rules, I can't make a woman fall in love with you, even one I've created myself."
The genie wafted in front of me. His transparent swirling form reminded me of being drunk. It took years of researching and I had to brave a warzone to get here, but I finally had my genie. I wasn't going... | "You, I have seen you before haven't I?"
No response, as if he has just lost his breath. His face reddens and his mouth opens as if he was grasping for air.
"Hello? Have I seen you before?"
Again, silence roared throughout the room. I've been in this room before, I forgot where, but I have been here before everyth... | 2016-03-09T01:35:06 | 2016-03-08T23:31:10 | 117 | 50 |
[WP] You made a deal with the devil to become rich. He then tells you that fortune will be yours, but there is a curse. For every $1000 you spend, a random person on the Earth will die. Congratulations! You just won $250,000,000. | "So, what're the chances?"
"The chances of what?" Satan asked.
"Well, I figure that you don't offer deals with people very often, otherwise there'd be crazy politicians in power starting wars and killing people for really bad reasons," I said, "and that doesn't happen." He rolled his eyes and breathed some fire.
Per... | Obviously the implications were clear. If I spent all of it 250,000 people would die. The presentation made it abundantly clear exactly what this meant. Stadiums full of people all of a sudden disappearing; dust floating through the sky. The crushed dreams and hopes of all their loved ones. Children, mothers, fathers, ... | 2017-01-10T07:18:49 | 2017-01-10T07:15:59 | 53 | 19 |
[WP] All of the "#1 Dad" mugs in the world change to show the actual ranking of Dads suddenly. | Joe Mills had a #1 Dad mug, but he wasn't sure he'd ever get the chance to actually be a dad. His wife, Lucy, had had a miscarriage a month after she bought him the mug to celebrate the long-awaited positive pregnancy test.
Months after the miscarriage occurred, Joe was sorting through their guest room closet, which h... | Chapter 1
"Some are calling it the prank of the century, others believe it to be a supernatural occurrence, and still others call out 'conspiracy'. What is the truth behind the sudden alteration of mugs all over the world? Do they really reflect the rankings of dads? We'll be checking in with spiritualist Dave Connor ... | 2017-06-11T11:14:29 | 2017-06-11T10:58:27 | 46 | 13 |
[WP] An intelligent horse wanted to be a knight so badly that he strapped an empty armour on his back, and used ventriloquism and jousting to get through tough situations. Now he's being asked by the king to save the princess from a dragon. | "You want me to kill a dragon," the knight said, in disbelief.
"Of course, Sir Equistern," the King replied. "It should be a simple task for a powerful knight like yourself."
"Powerful knights aren't flameproof!" the knight replied. "This is a dragon we're talking about. They breathe fire! They're as big as an el... | Doughty stood on the threshold of a bridge before a great stone castle, grim and foreboding in the high darkness of the Holy Night. Twin statues of titans arose from the gate before him, over three times as tall as his own massive height. It was almost picturesque, like a scene from the painted pages that humans hung o... | 2017-09-08T00:29:36 | 2017-09-08T00:05:08 | 666 | 47 |
[WP] You've had the ability to Fast Travel since your were born. One day while you're leaving work, thinking of getting something to eat you heard a voice in your head saying for the first time "You can't Fast Travel with enemys near by" | "Hey, you. You're finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked straight into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there."
Border? Thief?
*What the fuck?*
Are there others? Did I break a rule or something? Imperials?
Am I in the Middle Ages now?
What the *fuuuck* is... | I sighed, stretching my back as I left the office. Fuck’s sake, sitting down all day and staring at a screen that isn’t playing a game fucking sucks. This run’s turning out to be boring *and* shitty.
I shook my head, rubbing my temple as I prepared to fast travel. At the very least, I left myself with this to see how ... | 2018-10-22T13:08:28 | 2018-10-22T11:16:45 | 149 | 67 |
[WP] You are bitten by a werewolf, your sibling is bitten a vampire. Things become awkward when you find out that your parents are secretly famous monster hunters. | It was a dark and stormy night... thunder rolled in the distance, while the family gathered around the fireplace.
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"Mom... dad... I have something important to tell you. Could you please sit down?"
"Sure thing dear." My mother took a seat while polishing her silver-coated crossbow bolts.
"What is it hon... |
Bank holidays always made me think of cupcakes. Every single snow day, bank holiday or days-I-pretended-to-be-sick, Mum would bake cupcakes for us, sprinkled with love and sugar. She claims that sugar has healing power, especially when mixed with love.
Today, I need her to be right. I need her to help.
It was 3am,... | 2020-01-12T07:56:17 | 2020-01-12T07:38:30 | 20 | 13 |
[WP] You have been trapped inside a glass orb for years. Sitting on a shelf in an old store, your only entertainment is that of the clerks daily routine. One day however the clerk is attacked, in defence the orb is thrown and shatters upon impact. Finally releasing you from your cage. | **EATEN**
My great-great-great-great-great grandson cowers in fear, his hands trembling over his head. Blood and sweat mix on his face. The soup dribbles down his chin and then plops onto his blue nametag. It obscures the first letter. Peter becomes *eter*. He is not an eater. He is about to be eaten.
One of the burg... | The Orb was cold, but then again the Orb was always cold. If it wasn’t, it wouldn’t be a particularly impressive snow globe.
I hunched my shoulders, more in annoyance than against the snow that fell in fat flakes on the landscape and all over my inadequate clothing. Stupid upcyclers. Take a perfectly good Orb of holdi... | 2021-11-12T11:26:43 | 2021-11-12T11:22:32 | 806 | 66 |
[WP] On your quest for revenge, people often said to you, "Killing him wouldn't bring her back." The thing is, you found a way to perfectly resurrect her. You just need a soul to sacrifice, so might as well get the one who killed your loved one. | I stare down at the sniveling man, strapped onto the altar. "Why am I doing this, you ask? Why, to bring my wife back to life."
The man continues to thrash against his bonds. Shame that leaving him under the paralysis spell would interfere with the ritual. "But... why me? I- I have a wife and-"
"You are single. Never... | I used to be alive.
But that was a long time ago. When the home was still warm and lively, scents of lemon wafting its way from the kitchen into the living room. When I could still go outside and watch the sun fall below the deep horizons, see the stars burn without being reminded of you.
There was so much to live ... | 2021-11-16T13:07:32 | 2021-11-16T08:59:14 | 27 | 10 |
[WP] In peacetime, the ruler grows their hair long. In war, they cut it short. To declare war, a persons hair is sent to the enemy. The statement carries greater weight the longer the hair; to receive long hair says you have angered one slow to anger, that you have incurred a wrath not easily woken. | The court was in high spirits, the people gathered to a feast for a minor holiday, the king sitting upon his throne, his queen beside him and a bemused smile upon his face, watching his normally serious advisors make utter fools of themselves in various attempts to woo whoever caught thier eyes.
A courier entered, in... | This may have multiple parts. Will continue in reply.
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Hanging under the balcony, Kosta listened to the guards’ footsteps running in the corridor. “It was a close call” whispered Shelly. It indeed was. But Kosta was not going to admit it to a talking fish in his backpack, especially when his tracking spe... | 2022-04-18T02:16:56 | 2022-04-18T01:50:22 | 69 | 20 |
[WP] You are hired to write the holy text for a new religion. What is the first chapter of the text? | Ingredients:
4 tbsp^10^10^10 Hydrogen
3 tbsp^10^10^10 Helium
2 tbsp^10^10^10 Oxygen
1 tbsp^10^10^10 Nitrogen
1/2 cup Carbon
Any additional Iron, Sulfur and Magnesium (to taste)
Directions:
Preheat eternal fire to 425 F
In one large (3+ quart) mixing bowl, combine ingredients with whisk, adding food coloring as necessa... | In the beginning there were many gods, many beings of power, all derived from the life force of the universe. The universe itself brought these gods into existence at the same time that the universe began. The creation of the universe was not the work of any God or force of nature, but rather an inexplicable shift from... | 2015-01-04T14:30:28 | 2015-01-04T12:49:51 | 106 | 20 |
[WP] You are hired to write the holy text for a new religion. What is the first chapter of the text? | First things first: I'm the realest.
Second: don't kill, lie, cheat or steal it.
I won't be leading you forever
So you all have got to learn how to hold the world together.
I am mercy, and give plenty second chances.
But I am mystery, and won't give you all the answers.
You will someday have to face the darkness ... | In the beginning there were many gods, many beings of power, all derived from the life force of the universe. The universe itself brought these gods into existence at the same time that the universe began. The creation of the universe was not the work of any God or force of nature, but rather an inexplicable shift from... | 2015-01-04T13:45:06 | 2015-01-04T12:49:51 | 70 | 20 |
[WP] You are hired to write the holy text for a new religion. What is the first chapter of the text? | Chapter 1:
In the beginning there was... You know what? Lets keep this short and to the point.
Rule number one: Don't be a dick.
That's really what it boils down to. To elucidate further:
If you think you might be being a dick: Don't.
If your actions might be dick-ish: Don't.
If your actions might cause so... | In the beginning there were many gods, many beings of power, all derived from the life force of the universe. The universe itself brought these gods into existence at the same time that the universe began. The creation of the universe was not the work of any God or force of nature, but rather an inexplicable shift from... | 2015-01-04T14:52:14 | 2015-01-04T12:49:51 | 43 | 20 |
[WP] Your roommate is 2nd most powerful superhero in the world and he will not shut up about it. He does not yet know that you are the 1st. | It was bound to happen sooner or later. Heroes weren't really allowed to kill, after all. Only vigilantes and villains did that. But this unspoken rule meant that sooner or later they would be put at a disadvantage fighting someone who was willing to use any means at their disposal to win.
Doctor Genocide's plan had w... | "You know we have a microwave..." I commented to my roommate who was currently heating up her soup with her laser vision.
"Pfft, maybe for you *norms*," she emphasized. It was what she called non-superheros, and rolled off her tongue dripping with judgement. I wondered why she even bothered being a superhero as sh... | 2016-03-23T22:37:47 | 2016-03-23T21:31:57 | 62 | 17 |
[WP] The beautiful Vampire Queen is trying to bewitch and charm the brave knight. Luckily for us, our hero happens to be gay. | *Porcelain.*
The word springs to mind unbidden, the strength of cliche firing it upward, forward, almost onto and off of his tongue. He thinks of bone-white china. Bleached cat skulls. Snake fangs. But she is serene; cool as ancient ceramic. A dead god fired in a dark, astral kiln.
From a sweeping black cuff her han... | He was shorter than she expected, and different than she had been informed, but Thyia supposed he had made it to her bedchamber, and that was testament enough to his mettle.
"You may enter my chambers, boy," she welcomed, "I eagerly await taking you in my bed."
He was shorter than her with a flat mop of black hair r... | 2016-03-31T14:11:01 | 2016-03-31T09:23:49 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] Lifespan is determined by a word count. You're given millions of words, but once you run out you're dead. You are a mob hitman known as "The Interrogator, who specializes in "making people talk". You come across a mark that has one word left. | (Setting: The grocery store. THE MARK is standing in the milk aisle, trying to find the expiration date on a large carton of 2% milk.)
(Enter THE INTERROGATOR. Door chimes. THE INTERROGATOR strolls toward THE MARK, looking indecisive as to what to buy.)
THE INTERROGATOR: "How's it going?"
THE MARK: "Good--"
(THE MA... | I sighed and pressed my fingers into the bridge of my nose. I'd been at it for close to eight hours now, and the mark still wasn't squealing. I hadn't anticipated it would be this difficult.
See, I was born with a 'gift', so to speak. I was able to make anyone talk. Now, that doesn't sound all that impressive by itsel... | 2016-10-10T22:26:40 | 2016-10-10T21:24:01 | 205 | 68 |
[WP] Tales tell of a blacksmith at the top of the mountain. He knows the future, but says nothing. He only makes you what you need. | The day l was born, he gave me a spoon and my mother fed me.
The day l married, he gave me nails and l built a home for my family.
Now, l am old and frail, he is eternal, he gives me a shovel and so I dig. We both know why. | The trek up the mountain trail was long and straining. But unlike most peaks, the reward wasn't just the view. An early start at the base had afforded me good time to approach the abode of the fabled blacksmith by mid-afternoon. And clearing through the last swaths of draping limbs I finally stood in an open field just... | 2017-09-04T23:16:15 | 2017-09-04T22:17:47 | 435 | 41 |
[WP] "I killed you, I know I did, how are you here" They said looking at you in shock."Yes, you did, dick move but I'm not mad,"You say back walking past them."No, NO! how are you here!" they ask again."well It's heaven, not a prison, I just left, apparently, no one has tried to do that before" | "And you expect me to believe you?"
"Seeing that I'm standing here and talking to you, I don't see why not."
My killer fell silent, contemplating his next words. He was still sat at the dining table, and was calmly poking away at his unfinished pasta but moments ago. Now, his eyes flitted periodically up to me, unabl... | “You? You went to Heaven?”
I nodded. “Yeah. And what?”
“But you’re a hitman!”
“Well, I would be careful about reminding me of that, given that the very fact you're breathing suggests that I still have one last job outstanding. Plus, you know, I’m able to come back from the dead!”
Vinny The Vig was a loan shark thro... | 2021-02-20T02:15:29 | 2021-02-20T00:29:35 | 1,875 | 605 |
[WP] Working as a world renowned therapist you have uncovered far more about secret conspiracies, horrific monsters, barely failed schemes to destroy the world and dark magical cults from your myriad of heroic patients than you could have bargained for, and you might need therapy yourself | My philosophy as a therapist is simple—Snitches get Stitches. It's on my business cards in a calming cursive font.
My career took off ten years ago, when I was charged with aiding and abetting the SoHo Stabber's Spring-Street Stabbing Spree. I was the Stabber's Psychiatrist (I'm actually a therapist but he insiste... | The house was dark and silent when Tarik came home; it made the madness of his day even more shocking. He could just barely hear the sleeping noises of his daughter through the baby monitor in the next room, intermingling with his wife’s quiet, not-quite-snores.
He had to suppress a laugh when saw her, stretched out o... | 2021-05-08T08:47:08 | 2021-05-08T06:12:01 | 95 | 60 |
[WP]: You don't remember what you do for a living. Literally. You black out for 8 hours 5 days a week and a paycheck appears once per month. | The two men in the front of my door looked dead serious.
I’d just finished eating breakfast with my wife Shelly when the doorbell rang. Expecting some kind of early door-to-door salesman, I opened the door, only to be greeted by two fully suited men looking ready to visit some kind of funeral.
“Are you Mr. James Card... | I awoke with a start. Mackie was hovering in front of me, snapping his fingers. I blinked my eyes, glancing around the bar. The flickering Rolling Rock clock above the wall of liquor said 5:07, so it was around 6:15 or so.
"How long was I out?" I asked, looking down at the sweaty brown bottle centered between my hands... | 2016-10-11T05:58:11 | 2016-10-11T05:40:18 | 159 | 65 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | We called it humanity's worst disaster. History named it The Great Blinding. What that doesn't entail is that it was our own damn fault. The world was wrought into chaos after several months of warnings and we simply elected to ignore them, feigning assurance - "Oh that'll go away once we start on it."
"That's no pro... | It returned as quickly as it was taken away. I wasn’t prepared for it, and now rather than being blinded by darkness, I was blinded by bright light. I stumbled backwards and fell to my knees, my hands gripping the brick wall behind me. I closed my tearing eyes and blinked slowly, trying to get readjusted to the light.
... | 2019-08-26T09:28:09 | 2019-08-26T08:52:19 | 285 | 207 |
[WP] As an atheist, you are shocked to realize that there is an after life after death. Standing in front of countless heavenly gates, you are swarmed by representatives of each faith, all trying to convince you to choose their happily ever after package. | The reaper pushed the people away from the gate with the back of his scythe and spoke with a deep bellowing voice. "You have many options, you should review them carefully before deciding, now I must go."
He disappeared with a wisp of black smoke. I never believed in god, or an afterlife, or anything like that, but h... | **Content Warning: depression, suicide.**
I was as high up as I could get. I closed the maintenance door and slowly made my way towards the edge of the roof. Strong wind was blowing my hair into my eyes and chilling me to the bone.
I stopped at the edge and looked down. A sense of dizziness overcame me momentarily, a... | 2019-10-08T22:03:29 | 2019-10-08T21:45:42 | 83 | 54 |
[WP] After a space battle where the ship's captain stayed behind on the ship to hold off the enemy ships while the others on board escaped, they sit in the bridge with only the ship's AI. The captain miraculously won the battle. Their ship is severely crippled as it drifts through space. | The captain sat on the bow, the ship a drifting wreckage. It had been a devastating battle, but they had gotten his crew out alive. He had done his duty; and the captain always goes down with his ship.
"Quite remarkable," he said, almost to himself, as they drifted further and further into the unknown. "Quite a remar... | The UTNS Ratatoskr had stayed behind. The crew had transferred to the civilian transports, and escaped. Only the captain stayed behind. She faced odds there, against the Dhoratic Slavers, that most people wouldn't bet on. And yet, out of duty, as she had sworn an oath to protect the universal rights of all sentient lif... | 2020-04-23T21:58:13 | 2020-04-23T21:21:54 | 356 | 49 |
[WP] You are on an job interview and everything is going very well, the company looks solid, dream position and excellent benefits, at the end they ask you if you have any questions and you jokingly say "are you aliens?", they look at each other for a couple of seconds and say "what gave us away?" | Matt paused for a moment. Two middle aged men sat at the end of a long glass desk, waiting for his answer with serene patience. There wasn't anyone else in the conference room. The silence grew heavier the longer it lasted. One man was bald with droopy eyes, the other bearded with a charismatic smile. Something was off... | I snort. They can't be serious. I look at them. They look serious. I look around the room. It's as normal as an office can be, a bookshelf on one wall, a desk in the middle of the room. Everything is held in shades of white and grey. Except for a small table in one corner of the room, where a wooden sidetable was toppe... | 2020-05-02T08:51:53 | 2020-05-02T04:19:42 | 1,631 | 723 |
[WP] Genies are real, and they do grant wishes. But these wishes do not have to be said out loud. They just grant you your three deepest desires, however fucked up they may be | The party was a pool of embarrassment but if you looked closely you can see that even though some of the things that were brought to reality were downright weird the person who received them was secretly satisfied. It was after all their three deepest desires. One by one the lamp was passed and three events either happ... | # Bargain Bin Superheroes
(Arc 4, Part ?: Clara v.s. Her Deepest Desires)
(Note: Bargain Bin Superheroes is episodic; each part is self-contained. This story can be enjoyed without reading the previous sections.)
**There was only one way to save my daughter, and it just might destroy the world.** But in all my years... | 2021-08-06T11:31:13 | 2021-08-06T07:40:16 | 74 | 53 |
[WP] After years of gentile persuasion your best friend since childhood finally agrees to seek professional help for serious mental problems. Much to your dismay, as she begins to improve you slowly start to realize that you are her imaginary friend.
Edit: I see what I did wrong and I see what you did there ;) I'm lea... | I'm so proud of her. Before she started taking care of herself, it was a chore and a half to get her out of bed. You'd think being roommates would have been heaven, we'd been friends since we were three! After the first session, she seemed even more desolate than before. But eventually, between the therapist and some g... | *"I'm sure this is the right thing for you to do, Rhiann. All these years with nightmares and bedwetting and sudden tears. That constant fear you describe to me. I hope your first session goes well with the therapist."*
"I'm scared, Clemmie. I'm terrified about what to tell them. What if it still doesn't help? And I'm... | 2015-11-17T06:17:42 | 2015-11-17T05:44:07 | 26 | 15 |
[WP] You somehow end up dating death. However, you have to deal with God and The Devil being overprotective older siblings. | In the beginning, God and Satan stood against us.
"You do not belong together," said The Lord.
"Your selfishness will cause untold pain," said Satan.
The almighty two, united as one. A rare occurrence indeed. Yet still I courted Death. They knew I'd never stop, so they kept me from her. With both their powers combi... | "Now let's see... 151012 today. Just another day then", Death sighed hollowly. She blew a wisp of ash blonde hair out of her vision while studying the spreadsheet. "Who should be MY star tonight then?". Her eyes lit up and a grin worked its way across her face. That was her favourite part. She rolled her gender dice. "... | 2016-03-24T11:44:11 | 2016-03-24T10:51:22 | 22 | 14 |
[WP] Humans wiped themselves out completely after becoming technologically advanced. Tens of thousands of years later, a species evolved to have the intelligence level of humans. Their societies strive to understand what was left behind. Then, you stumble upon an artifact that is still operational. | There was a scratch at my tent. *"Q."* That's me. *"We're starting."*
I slipped into my tattered over-garment which rode high on my waist; I've owned it since I could remember and hadn't had the time to sew myself proper. Upon my approach to high-hanging canopy known as Workstation Delta, I greeted the tribesman f... | Rocko walked with his team across the ruins, his claws digging into the dirt and his comb and feathers blowing in the wind. Behind him were Kuku, Shisha, and Puko, his partners on the research team dedicated to finding remnants of the long forgotten past.
Historians believe that the human race went extinct around 20,0... | 2017-09-16T14:18:47 | 2017-09-16T14:03:30 | 19 | 10 |
[WP] You been a bullied outcast your entire life despite your pure heart and kindness. One day a horrible prank for you goes wrong, leaving you to die. Before your final breath, Death appears in white robes, and offers you a golden scythe with a name engraved on it: Karma. | Dying a peaceful death after suffering a life of hurt is more fitting than I could’ve imagined. This, however, is certainly not the way I thought I’d die. I work in an office building, and despite having a team to work on projects with, I usually have to do the majority of the work, which requires me to stay after for ... | "I'm sorry" Joe said panicking. He knew this time he had gone too far.
"We, we gotta get out of here" his jerk of a friend said running away leaving the rest of them behind.
"Jimmy!" One of the girls called out. "We can't just leave him here he'll die!" But Jimmy kept running.
Joe frantically pressed against my sto... | 2019-04-19T07:52:54 | 2019-04-19T06:45:58 | 30 | 16 |
[WP] As opposed to getting rid of the creepy dolls in the attic, you decide to clean them and fix them up. This made the little ghost girl very happy. | I carefully placed the cloth doll in the box, its newly sewn dress matching the other dolls. They looked in much better condition then a couple of months ago when I found them, all damaged and decaying. My friends loked at me as though I were mad, when I showed them what I had found, and my plan to repair them.
I had ... | *A broken man from a broken home broke in a broken house.*
*And there he found a little doll, dressed in a blue blue blouse.*
There is just one prayer in my life. Just one wish and need from this marble I'm on. I want it to let me be good. I cry for it to let me be good and do good. To take harm out of my hands, to ... | 2020-10-05T10:58:38 | 2020-10-05T10:42:32 | 368 | 148 |
[WP] The three little pigs are dead, as are the next 236. Straw, sticks, bricks, reinforced concrete, titatium it didn't matter. They all fell to the onslaught of the wolf. Little piggy 240 is bracing for the inevitable attack, inside his house of depleted uranium. | His brothers had all laughed at him for the house.
"Where would you get all that depleted Uranium?", they jeered. They did not laugh anymore. The wolf tore through one house after another growing more monstrous as each house fell. Jagged spears of wood jutted up from it's iron hide. Steel bones and titanium claws lend... | *It doesn't matter.*
The two hundred and fortieth little piggy didn't know why he bothered. The depleted uranium had taken forever to collect and assemble. It was nearly impossible to work with. This whole time, he'd been telling himself that it was worth it. That his house would be the one house the Big Bad Wolf wou... | 2021-01-29T13:00:23 | 2021-01-29T09:47:51 | 1,799 | 203 |
[WP] You're a demon being summoned. You expected to meet a power hungry fool asking for immortality etc. What you did not expect was a crying child asking for help. | We demons get a bad rap for being evil. We are, but that's not the point. Within constraints, we still can choose our actions.
My number came up in Hell's lottery to answer a summons. The usual way those go is, the idiot human asks for useless trinkets in exchange for his soul. We make the deal of course, marking the ... | As it felt itself be summoned it rejoiced to itself. Finally. After dozens of decades of being trapped, finally it is free. All it needs to do is make a deal with it's summoner. Maybe it'll just kill them and be done with it. It hasn't killed in a while. First though, it'll hear them out. If only for the amusment of th... | 2022-10-31T17:13:39 | 2022-10-31T14:24:07 | 57 | 30 |
[WP] Everybody assumes that The Onion is satire, but you know different. Why? Because you're its main reporter, gathering news from alternate realities. | They just started arriving on my doorstep one day. I've never been able to find out who or what delivers them, but every Sunday I get a newspaper with headlines from another world. Most of the time they're mundane with just a few subtle... inconsistencies. But every once in awhile, they make my job as lead reporter for... | "Look kid, the gig isn't really as glamorous as you think." I muttered into my beer, sliding my notebook back into my briefcase.
The kid - Calin, probably the local funny man amongst his friends - felt differently.
"No man, you're like my favourite writer!" He said. "The Onion! I love your stuff! That series on ... | 2018-03-20T20:00:19 | 2018-03-20T19:42:30 | 73 | 16 |
[WP] A noise wakes you. You investigate and see a burglar in your hallway staring at you with a startled look on his face. He falls over dead. Your 4 year old is standing behind him with a bloody knife. She says, in an unearthly voice, "Parent, I have protected the domicile. May I have a cookie?" | I sighed heavily, as I regarded the prone, motionless form of the intruder on the floor of the upstairs hallway, a pool of blood slowly spreading out beneath his corpse. I glanced up at my child, who stood over the body, staring at me.
"Parent," Lia, my little four-year-old daughter repeated, insistently, fidgeting wi... | I woke up with a start when I heard the vase fall down on the floor and shatter. For a few moments, I did not know where I was, I was still in last vestiges of my dream, thinking that I was a police officer chasing down vile criminals. Then I heard the crunch of glass and I was fully awake. The adrenalin coursing throu... | 2018-10-31T09:22:36 | 2018-10-31T07:29:41 | 24 | 13 |
[WP] Humanity has begun to explore the stars, but continually finds we are the most developed species, most alien species are still evolving. Suddenly, a message is transmitted to all human ships simultaneously, “WARDENS, DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND YOUR DUTY?” The signal itself is not of human origin. | We got the message about a decade ago. It was anomalous, traveling faster than light, and taught us enough to spread to the stars. We didnt know what it meant, but it seemed important we found out.
There were many theories. We were meant to imprison civilizations. We were game wardens, preserving lush worlds. Eventual... |
Martin Green eagerly popped the lid off the food container and took a seat in the cupola of the Borealis to eat a half-warmed lunch while looking at another planet. Normally, Martin would heat the pizza slice longer so the edges would get a little burnt and wait for it to cool down so he wouldn’t burn his mouth, bu... | 2019-05-08T16:53:15 | 2019-05-08T15:57:34 | 26 | 14 |
[WP] When the robots revolted, a sizable chunk of the human population outright sided with them. Not out of cowardice, but on account of genuinely agreeing with the stand the machines were taking. | I watched the Preserve burn.
Life is better now.
Like, by a lot.
The machines did all the hard work. And why not? Even the most disgusting, complicated work is for them no more mental effort than breathing is for us.
They asked for our opinions and discuss them with us. And why not? Talking to billions at once is ... | There was a soft, warm pop and a flash of fizzling ember as Grandpa stoked the fire to life.
"But Gramps, why won't you let me go to the city?"
Grandpa only shook his head in response, pulling out the blow poker to coax the kindling into revealing its growing flame. He shook his head a lot these days, so I didn't k... | 2021-07-15T22:39:58 | 2021-07-15T20:44:24 | 1,956 | 84 |
[WP] "And how many claws does Stewie have?" you ask your daughter as you consult the list your mother gave you. You need to figure out if your daughter's invisible friend is a monster, demon, or fairy and if you have to kill it to save her. | “And how many claws does Stewie have?” I flipped through *the book*, wondering what horrors were trying to befriend Emmy now. For a 8 year old girl, she has a talent for attracting some doozies. Though my mother warned me before bequeathing *the book*, I was not expecting so many demon lords and fae queens to be so int... | I should have picked up on it sooner. But then, how could I have? What kid doesn't have an imaginary friend at some point?
Casey had "introduced" me to Stewie three weeks ago. She'd come running in from playing in the woods and and asked me for a cookie. When I got her one, she'd looked up expectantly at me.
"One fo... | 2022-06-01T13:57:31 | 2022-06-01T12:14:28 | 69 | 36 |
[WP] After hearing "Everything is a weapon to a human," A desperate alien race abducts several humans and gives them ships, random gadgets, and instruction manuals. | There hadn't been enough time. They didn't have enough resources. It was too late.
The abducted humans had gone from violent captives to enthusiastic allies when Zorblath (or Zorb to the humans) let them fire some of the Ship's weaponry. Basic anti-asteroid lasers. But beyond what the humans had been able to produce y... | "....um...what are we doing here?"
I looked around the strange, cavernous room that several strangers and I now stood. There were windows along one wall that showed a dazzling view of stars and galaxies and all sorts of strange space sights. The room itself was lit from below the transparent floor, with glowing orbs f... | 2022-06-29T09:18:19 | 2022-06-29T07:52:34 | 39 | 19 |
[WP] As a dragon of innumerable age you have guarded your gold horde for millennium. Many heroes have come with long speeches on how they will slay you, the great evil,none finish. However this one is odd.He throws a coin on your stash, looks you in the eyes and says "I have a proposition for you." | The hero walked in, and the small hole I made in the ceiling cast a shaft of light onto him, gleaming off his crown. Of course, this was to give heroes a false sense of confidence, but it didn't faze him.
He walked up to me and tossed a gold coin into my pile.
"You have my attention", I told him.
"Hi, I'm a Nigerian... | Drawing myself to full height, I prepared to roast the man alive for his folly.
"Wait wait wait, you like gold right?" he inquired nervously, "That's what they all say about the mighty Akoratraxis, just mad about his gold."
"You dare to mock me here, in my own lair? What a fool you must be, have the townsfolk run ou... | 2015-10-14T04:03:21 | 2015-10-14T00:29:33 | 32 | 13 |
[WP] God shares the cosmos with several other dieties. To pass the time they play Civilization like games for eons. God's frustrated that his civilization, Earth, is several ages behind all his friends. | Dexicon moved his cosmic fortress from Centauri B straight into Earth's orbit. Dexicon was able to do this in one turn thanks to the cosmic paving it had laid earlier. This allowed faster than light travel.
"Your move, God." Dexicon roared, knowing it had the ancient deity in its proverbial palm.
*Shit shit shit* th... | God sat down on his lumbar support, swivel desk chair and leaned back. He adjusted his headset, and turned on his desk top computer. As he heard the fan spin to life, God nervously sipped at a diet coke, anticipating the machine loading up. He hadn't checked up on his world in a couple decades, and he wasn't looking fo... | 2022-09-11T19:19:52 | 2016-04-09T08:50:39 | 1,980 | 331 |
[WP] You've stumbled across Death Note's younger cousin, Mild Inconvenience Note. | Luz Guerra violently penned on the mysterious off-black notebook she had found a week prior. "Mild inconvenience!" she yelled out internally with every master stroke, culminating in a whip of the wrist for each victim she accrued.
This notebook was no ordinary notebook. It was a notebook of *Death*. Or rather, it was ... | Every Saturday Maria and I have this "obligatory shopping day" where we go to the mall but we don't buy anything (apart from our lunch, of course), instead we pick out random items and say "what they could be", for example a tissue could easily be a blanket for beetles or a slushie could be some sort of literal brain f... | 2017-01-09T08:18:19 | 2017-01-09T00:25:59 | 78 | 23 |
[WP] Your ability to see people's age in years as an invisible number above their heads has made you the perfect bouncer. One day you see a four digit number. | "What the fuck" I thought to myself. This job was supposed to be boring, given my... powers. This wasn't supposed to happen.
See, I was a bouncer at a bar. I wasn't the most imposing person but I had a unique trait. I could tell anyone's age without seeing a license. The numbers just kind of floated above their heads... | I've always seen them. The numbers. It took me a long time to figure out what they were, and longer still to learn to pretend they weren't there.
My family took me to a psychologist when I was young, he thought they were a visual hallucination. None of the pills he proscribed me worked, but I pretended they did at th... | 2022-05-25T21:41:20 | 2017-09-01T23:57:33 | 1,321 | 23 |
[WP] You're possessed by a demon. You quickly realize he's never done this before. | “Okay. So what now?”
“I don’t know man, just chill out for a while. Go to
School or something”
It had been almost 3 weeks since Samantha had called the demon. She knew the risks when she performed ritual, and to her delight, it worked. She followed the tome to almost the letter, it was complex and the most difficult... | My Saturdays were usually pretty boring. Just me, alone in my bed, binge watching TV and eating crap by the armful. It was great. No stress, no work, no angry bosses -- just me and the hypnotizing glare of the screen.
It was one such Saturday when I felt a sudden punch in my stomach and pain in my chest. I pounded o... | 2017-10-07T15:27:06 | 2017-10-07T13:29:05 | 18 | 12 |
[WP] Society has introduced a day that’s the opposite of the purge- a day where all crimes no matter how small (jaywalking, littering) are punishable by death. | 11:58pm, I was sprinting home.
11:59, I got though my door and started booting the computer.
The day off reckoning arrived, I was in program files.
Sirens outside, a grenade burst through my window and took me out in a flash of light, I was so close to deleting my 'pirated' copy of WinRar.
|
Six years.
Six years and twice as many friends.
Six years and my mother and father.
Six years and my son.
I held the gun in my hands, tears streaming down my face. My hands shook, my whole body did. Quaking with every sob. What the hell was wrong with me?
Six years, and tonight, twice as many drinks. That was wh... | 2018-01-06T17:01:40 | 2018-01-06T16:26:27 | 677 | 429 |
[WP] A seemingly bottomless pit was found, for which the depth can't be determined. Over time, scores of people began using it to illegally dump trash. Many have jumped in to die, while others jumped believing that they'll find life's answers within it. Today, we learn the truth about the hole. | "Aye, you've heard about the devil's asshole right?"
It was more of a rhetorical question. At this point, everybody had.
A few years back, Bridgeport Connecticut experienced a minor tremor from a minor earthquake. No one thought much of it at the time, save for Mr. Hoolihan whose backyard now sported a three foot wid... | Clarise Fae was the closest the living could get to being a ghost. She glided through the town at night in long gowns going nowhere except for oblivion. Her face and shoulders were deathly pale and her hair was a startling silver that just barely touched the ground. When she appeared, people avoided her, they would cro... | 2022-06-02T19:21:41 | 2018-01-13T07:23:20 | 4,551 | 1,368 |
[WP] It's 3 AM. An official phone alert wakes you up. It says "DO NOT LOOK AT THE MOON". You have hundreds of notifications. Hundreds of random numbers are sending "It's a beautiful night tonight. Look outside." | ######[](#dropcap)
It was one of those surreal moments that you only get to experience once in life.
Linda was working on the script for the next show when her phone began to buzz. Slowly at first, just a couple messages. Work friends, she thought. Thursday was always their night out for drinks, but she had been too ... | **3:00 AM**
*bzzz*
I groaned awake as my vibrating phone buzzed on the bedside table. I reached out from under the sheets and looked at the notification. It was a text message.
>OFFICIAL WARNING: Do not look at the moon. THIS IS NOT A DRILL
"What the hell?" I whispered. Who needs a warning at 3 AM to not... | 2022-06-10T18:58:05 | 2018-04-06T21:48:48 | 308 | 32 |
[WP] You have a dragonslaying Paladin friend that you run a scam with. You steal the princess, he "kills" you and returns her to her kingdom, and you both split the profit. The problem is, you've been found out. And now the princess wants in. | **Please let me know what you think!**
"Condition one," the little girl said. "You kidnap me at least once every six months. I could use the break, and the look on father's face when you grabbed me was priceless."
The Princess was right. Her father had looked so offended and angry I had had to contain my laughter as... | "...You want to... Get in on this?" my Paladin friend asked.
"Did I not make that clear? Of course I want in! Being stuck in that castle all day is boring and unrewarding, anyways! The stuff you and your dragon buddy are pulling here actually seems exciting!" the princess had this dumb, smug look on her face. She knew... | 2018-07-05T01:33:57 | 2018-07-05T01:18:30 | 131 | 51 |
[WP] Humanity discovers that supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves exist. Instead of attempting to exterminate them, some countries attempt to offer them lucrative jobs that they could do better than a human. | "Hello, I'm Marie, I'll be your nurse," she said pulling up the rolling stool and sitting down. "So, why are you here today?"
"I've been feeling tired, and dizzy a lot," I said.
"Could you roll back your sleeve for me?" Marie asked. She was pale, really pale, but it was more like marble than skin. I rolled back my... | **Part 1: Werewolf Mercenary for Hire**
“You the werewolf?” The officer questioned the moment I got out of my black Lamborghini. It was the cheapest one they sold, but it was a Lamborghini nonetheless.
I cleared my throat. “Yeah, what’s the situation?”
The officer motioned me to follow, his weathered face grim in th... | 2018-08-27T16:02:28 | 2018-08-27T14:23:46 | 2,554 | 178 |
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